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Still, before you can take advantage of anything Active Record
has to offer, you must first get it installed and configured, so let??™s get started with that step now.
CHAPTER 1 ?–  INTRODUCING ACTIVE RECORD 7
Installing and Configuring Active Record
One of the primary design goals of Active Record (and Rails for that matter) was to favor, as DHH
puts it, ???convention over configuration.??? This means, from a developer??™s point of view, it should
be very quick and simple to install and start to use. A developer should not have to spend hours
setting up and learning about all the various configuration options and files before even starting
to do some real coding. As you can imagine, this is a lofty goal for any library designer, but it??™s
one that DHH was actually able to achieve! In fact, it??™s probably the single biggest reason that
Active Record (and Rails) is being so quickly adapted by developers around the world. In this
chapter, we??™ll walk you through the very simple three-step process to get Active Record installed
for your specific situation.


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